I have been waiting almost a whole year to use these cookie cutters. After seeing all their little faces, it was definitely worth the wait.
jack o lantern cookies
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donuts for fall
We had a little get together, and my gift for the table were these pumpkin donuts with pecans (recipe here). I am beginning to think that people only invite me for the treats.
halloween cookie time
I can always rationalize a reason to make cookies. Especially gingerbread cookies. These ones were shaped like pumpkins, owls, bats, ghosts, coffins, bear cubs, and porcupines.
when in austin: easy tiger
I have a major obsession with baked goods. I could stare (and smell) them all day. I don’t even need to eat them to appreciate them. That is why Easy Tiger is the best. They basically use the bread as art. Bonus points to them because you can watch them baking, and it also tastes as good as it smells.
rolo cookies
I have had these Rolo cookies in my cookie queue for a while now. They actually require me remembering to buy Rolos at the store, so they had to be patient. In the middle of making these cookies, my guy brought me some flowers, because he is just that kind of boy.
In exchange for the flowers, I gave the guy one of the chewy, chocolaty cookies. Ok, maybe he got two cookies because the flowers were oh-so pretty.
when in austin: farmer’s market
When you live in Austin, you must go to the Farmer’s Market, with your dog while still wearing your Saturday morning yoga clothes. You have to buy the kettle corn (because its kettle corn), sample everything, and buy some fresh veggies.
On this particular trip, we impulse bought a couple pickling cucumbers, and then impulse bought all the supplies needed to make homemade pickles.
And just in case you thought making pickles smells good- it smells like we should be wearing this.
fall leaves and cupcakes
The other day, it was rainy and almost cold. Which must mean that fall is coming soon. How do you celebrate the approaching boots and sweater weather? We made cupcakes with colorful leaf sprinkles.
homemade pop tarts
Things just taste better when they are made with love. If you buy pop tarts at the store, sure, they taste like pure sugar, but you sure don’t taste any love in them. So even though it would take less time and energy to simply buy pop tarts at the store, there is much more joy in creating them with your own hands.
I found the recipe for homemade pop tarts here. I made ours with whole wheat flour, and with fillings of jam, cinnamon sugar, or chocolate.
wake up early: make banana bread and bulletin boards
I love mornings. The day is full of possibilities and so much time. The world is still quiet. And for some reason, waking up early on the weekends is way easier than waking up early during the week, probably because of the option of napping at 10am exists.
So I made some banana bread for breakfast. Nothing smells better than baked goods fresh from the oven.
While the bread was cooking, I decided to make some fabric covered bulletin boards. Super easy. Just cut out fabric, warm up the hot glue gun, and put those suckers together. Then we stared at our love notes while we ate warm banana bread.
Inaccurate Smoothie Recipe – Banana-Strawberry-Raspberry
I bought a blender recently and have taken on making my own smoothies for myself and the girl. I’ve decided to start with breakfast smoothies as they seemed like the easiest ones to start with. I started out following a smoothie recipe that I found to the exact measurement and although it turned out pretty good, it got me thinking…you can’t really mess up a smoothie as long as you’re working with the basic principles so I’ve started to make up my own smoothie recipes that are easy and pretty much follow common sense and my own taste buds.
First up, a banana-strawberry-raspberry smoothie. Here’s my first inaccurate smoothie recipe that was quite delicious:
- Add handful of ice cubes ( or frozen smoothie cubes if you have them!)
- Tear up a couple of bananas and throw in
- 5 to 7 strawberries with the tops cut off
- A long squeeze of honey from the bear
- A fistful of raspberries
- Lastly, a couple of spoonfuls of plain yogurt
- Blend well and enjoy
guy and his girl 
